be intimate

Questions about be intimate

What does be intimate mean?

be intimate means "have sexual intercourse with".

What is another word for be intimate?

Close synonyms include sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is be intimate a common word?

be intimate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.